Candle



(No Model.)

.6. H. KIRK.-

CANDLE.

No. 276,602. Y Patented May 1,1883.

N. vmns. Pewmmnwaphef. wuhi'ngmn n c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. KIRK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAN DLE.

sPEcIFrcA'rIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,602, dated May 1, 1883.

Application filed January 31, 1883. (No model.)

of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Candles Used for Giving Light, 0f which the following is a specitication.

My invention4 consists in the combination, with a candle, of an inflammable material which will kindle by friction and ignite the wick of the same.

Two methods of putting my invention in practice are illustrated in the accompanying ignite the said wick. As shown at G,Figs. 1, 2, a match,a, is placed within or contiguous to the wick, and at b, Fig. 1, the candle prepared for ignition by dipping the wick in an inflammable material.

The invention can be applied at either or both` ends of a candle.

I am aware that matches or tapers consisting of fiber saturated with wax or other suitable substances, provided at the end with a compound which will ignite by friction, have long been known and used, and this I do not claim.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, a candle provided at the end with a combustible material which will kindle by friction and ignite the wick of'said candle.

GEORGE H. KIRK. Witnesses:

WILLIAM M. STEWART, J r., FRANCIS D. PAsToETUs. 

